Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
When the City Planning Commission and City Council last year completed action on the first true master plan ever created for New Orleans’ long-term development, they were only halfway through the task of changing the way the city regulates land use. Still to come was the first real revision in decades of New Orleans’ comprehensive
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
With the wide acceptance of global warming as both real and potentially problematic, geoengineering — defined by the UK’s Royal Society as “the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change” — is currently experiencing a surge of interest. Despite the differentiated nature of the challenges, the greatest risk and uncertainty
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Polarcus Ltd. plans to begin soon a 3D multi-client seismic acquisition project over the Bjarmeland Platform in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. Industry pre-funding is supporting the survey, which could cover an area of 1,100 sq km (425 sq mi) by the time it is completed. The Polarcus Samur vessel is expected to take up to
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Home owners in high-risk flooding areas will have a harder time finding insurance as a result of the enormous damages inflicted by last month’s record-breaking thunderstorm. Certain areas are now being blacklisted by insurance companies who have received over 60,000 claims resulting from the three hour downpour. Read More
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Harnessing energy from moving water is an ancient technology. Hundreds of years ago, water-powered mills were used to produce flour from grain, operate pumps, saws and other tools. Since the late 19th century, the kinetic energy in flowing water has been used to generate electricity. A hydroelectric system involves putting up a dam to store vast
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
A panel of government and industry representatives has approved the first six interoperability standards to help guide the creation of an intelligent energy distribution grid. The Catalog of Standards is being developed by the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to fill technical gaps identified in the development of a smart-grid
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Kansas City voters could be headed to the polls for a ninth time to decide on light rail. Rail advocate Clay Chastain turned in enough signatures to get a $2.5 billion light-rail plan on the ballot this fall, the city clerk said. Chastain, who lives in Virginia, wants voters to approve a three-eighth-cent sales tax increase to
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The data collected by Terra Satellite of NASA from 2000 to 2011 shows that the earth’s atmosphere releases more heat into space than predicted by the computers that are programmed for the purpose, reports a new research recorded in Remote Sensing, a science journal. Read More
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The United Nations Economic and Social Council has voted to establish a committee of experts on global geospatial information management to better coordinate international dialogues on spatial data infrastructures and enhance international cooperation on the said matter between member states. According to the latest report from the office of the Secretary-General, at present, there is an absence of a
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
There was a time when geography was memorizing chief crops, major bodies of water and picking out countries on a map. Knowing that cloves came from places like Zanzibar and Madagascar or locating the Caspian Sea seemed all there was to this study. Not today. Anne Knowles, a geography professor atMiddlebury College, is using geographic information systems (GIS)
